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• Gender- is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.
• The causes of democratization are Wealth, Social equality, Culture, Foreign intervention, Education, Foreign trade, International cooperation, Dictatorship, Democracy protests, Threat of conflict
• Socioeconomic status (SES) is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or family's economic and social position in relation to others, based on income, education and occunation.
• Ethnicity- refers to cultural traits that are shared by a category of people such as language, religion, or national origin.
• When people integrate ethnicity as part of their identity and create a specific cultural, religious or national community, they self-consciously constitute an ethnic group.
• Religion- is a "unified system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things, things set apart and forbidden - beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community.
• Identity- refers to distinctive characteristics that define an individual or are shared by those belonging to a particular group.
• Food Taboos
• One of the food taboos among Muslims, for instance, is eating of pork.
• Understand their culture rather than regard them as "weird."
• Usually regarded as unruly, often suspected as thefts, and of other misdemeanors.
• Many of them are people who have difficulty in finding jobs because of inadequate opportunities in the Philippines.
• Political Dynasties
• Political dynasties refer to groups whose members are involved in politics.
• In the Philippines, political dynasties can be seen in families that have been part of the government for several generations.
• Political change - occurs when there is an alteration in the way power and authority are exercised in a particular state.
• Anthropology is the systematic study of the biological, cultural, and social aspects of man.
• It is derived from two Greek words, anthropos, which means "man," and logos, which means "study" or "inquiry."
• Anthropology is a significant branch of knowledge because it integrates elements from the biological sciences and humanities to fully comprehend the complex human species, including their past practices, and social patterns across diverse cultures.
• In theory, all Athenian citizens were eligible to speak and vote in the Assembly which set the laws of the city-state.
• Neolithic means "new stone" and agriculture was the crowning achievement of the period.
• Agriculture increasingly became widespread causing surplus of food and to stay and be rooted to protect property causing social and cultural bonds to form.
• In reality, Athens was not a true democracy as women were not included nor were foreigners, slaves or freed slaves.
• The term was coined during a period in Greek history when the city of Athens experimented with a form of government in which all citizens, rather than one king or a small group of wealthy men, made the laws of their state.
• When everyone did not have to farm anymore, people became artisans and craftsmen which brought trade and a class of merchants.
• Raising of animals created strain on nomadic people to find large and reliable sources of foods.
• The democracy therefore, was only a very small minority of the people living in Athens.
• Homo sapiens evolved and evidence showed that they had belief in the afterlife, developed social structures and hierarchies.
• According to the rules of citizenship both parents must have been Athenian citizens for a person to qualify to take part in the Assembly.
• Athens was the first city state to allow ordinary citizens access to government offices and courts.
• Early people were nomadic hunter-gatherers who lived off the land and pastoral society helped to further tie groups to specific areas of land.
• Cave paintings, burials, and tools are leftover relics of the period.
• Artisans contributed to the homogenization of culture.
• Democratization is the transition to a more democratic political regime.
• In a democratic government, the people's views influence the laws and decisions made by the government.
• The development of democracy can be traced back to ancient times, particularly to ancient Greece.
• Democracy means people-power or rule by the people.
• The democracy was the closest any country had come to establishing a democratic society at this time.
• Democracy came from the ancient Greeks who combined the words demos (people) and krates (rule) to create the term.
• Merchants caused Cultural Diffusion; human religion began to evolve.